About Russia, Its Revolutions, Its Development and Its Present
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Michal Reiman
The author analyzes modern Russian history from a new perspective. Due to the ideological heritage of the XIXth and XXth centuries, the social settings of the sociopolitical history of the USSR (1917–1945) have not been fully identified. Detailed examination of ideological and political concepts shows that the revolution of 1917 became not a middle class, proletarian movement, but rather a plebeian one. The misjudgment by the new power enabled growth but caused tremendous losses of human lives and material damages. Socialization of economy and strict centralization led to a new social structure and established terror as an instrument for social reorganization. WWII revealed the necessity of a correction of these developments, but the events of the Cold War circumvented any further considerations.
Contents
Contents
1. About the Russian Revolution of 1917
The Russian Revolution as a Plebeian Revolution
2. The “Building Socialism” in the early 1920s
The Events of 1923 in Germany and the Origin of the “Left Opposition” in the USSR
The Party and the Opposition after Lenin
3. The NEP Crisis and Suppressing of the Left Opposition
The Year 1925 and Crush of Soviet Industrial Planing
Tautening International Relations and the NEP Crisis
The Party and Opposition in 1927. The “Platform” of Opposition
4. The Stalin’s “second” Revolution
The 1928 Crisis and Stalin’s Conflict with the Party “Rightists”
Stalin, his First Five-Year Plan and Related Issues
Collectivisation of Agriculture and Its Consequences
The 1932–1933 Famine and Changes in Stalin’s Politics
5. Stalin’s “Soft Course” and the Soviet 1930s Phenomenon
The Stalin’s new Soviet Society
Kirov’s Murder and the Turning Point in Stalin’s Domestic Policy
Changes in the International Situation and Soviet Politics
6. Stalin’s “St. Bartholomew’s Day”
7. Consequences of Mass Massacre of the Soviet Elites
The Country after the Mass Massacre of Elites
8. The USSR in the Second World War, 1941–1945
Consolidation of the Soviet Leadership and Command
The 1943 – Turning Point of the War
9. The USSR and Western Allies
Connection and contradiction of the Allies
10. The USSR and East-Central Europe
The USSR at the Countries of East Central Europe and Balkan on the End of War
Churchill, Stalin and the “Percentage Agreement”